Февраль, 2017

Basic tasks for creating a PowerPoint presentation

PowerPoint presentations work like slide shows. To convey a message or a story, you break it down into slides. Think of each slide as a blank canvas for the pictures, words, and shapes that will help you build your story.

Note: For information about earlier versions of PowerPoint, see Create a basic presentation in PowerPoint.

Choose a theme

When you open PowerPoint, you’ll see some built-in themes and templates. A theme is a slide design that contains matching colors, fonts, and special effects like shadows, reflections, and more.

Click Create, or pick a color variation and then click Create.

Insert a new slide

On the Home tab, click the bottom half of New Slide, and pick a slide layout.

Save your presentation

On the File tab, choose Save.

Pick or browse to a folder.

In the File name box, type a name for your presentation, and then choose Save.

Note: If you frequently save files to a certain folder, you can ‘pin’ the path so that it is always available (as shown below).

Tip: Save your work as you go. Hit Ctrl+S often.

Select a text placeholder, and begin typing.

Format your text

Select the text.

Under Drawing Tools, choose Format.

Do one of the following:

To change the color of your text, choose Text Fill, and then choose a color.

To change the outline color of your text, choose Text Outline, and then choose a color.

To apply a shadow, reflection, glow, bevel, 3-D rotation, a transform, choose Text Effects, and then choose the effect you want.

Add pictures

On the Insert tab, do one of the following:

To insert a picture that is saved on your local drive or an internal server, choose Pictures, browse for the picture, and then choose Insert.

To insert a picture from the Web, choose Online Pictures, and use the search box to find a picture.

Choose a picture, and then click Insert.

Add speaker notes

Slides are best when you don’t cram in too much information. You can put helpful facts and notes in the speaker notes, and refer to them as you present.